Nitro Gag Order?

[The Counterfeiter]

I THOUGHT Nitro pricing, quality and availability was a big issue. Apparently not, since i asked this question before Indy and got ZERO info.
Bobby, Scoop, Darr - have all the problems been solved?

 

[Raconteur]

I THOUGHT Nitro pricing, quality and availability was a big issue. Apparently not, since i asked this question before Indy and got ZERO info. Darr - have all the problems been solved?

How much nitro do you need?

Call Pete Maziarz at Schumacher's
Dale Pulde in Sylmar, CA
or
Steve LeSueur at Steve's Fast Fuels
and
VP has some

There are probably others who will chime in with their info...

There is plenty of $1,900 per drum nitro around all over the place, some 55 gallon drums - some is in 40 - 42 gallon drums. Plus shipping, of course.

Sorry, but they are all sold out of the $800 per drum kind of nitro. There is no shortage of the $1,900 per drum kind, though.

 

[J.C.]

I THOUGHT Nitro pricing, quality and availability was a big issue. Apparently not, since i asked this question before Indy and got ZERO info.
Bobby, Scoop, Darr - have all the problems been solved?

What, do your printing presses run on nitro now????

 

[kd]

How much nitro do you need?

Call Pete Maziarz at Schumacher's
Dale Pulde in Sylmar, CA
or
Steve LeSueur at Steve's Fast Fuels
and
VP has some

There are probably others who will chime in with their info...

There is plenty of $1,900 per drum nitro around all over the place, some 55 gallon drums - some is in 40 - 42 gallon drums. Plus shipping, of course.

Sorry, but they are all sold out of the $800 per drum kind of nitro. There is no shortage of the $1,900 per drum kind, though.

Hey Darr!...great answer...is it true price may vary depending on affiliation???...herd sum stuff....oh...cangrats to the Burkster...anyone else notice that he broke both the Alan Johnson and IHRA sale stories to the web????..."just wondering"!...couldn't resist!!!

 

[Bobby Bennett]

The IHRA should have nitro now at 1400 per barrell coming up for Rockingham. In our last article, Steve Burns said there will likely be a price reduction in Dallas for the NHRA. We are playing a wait and see game.

Wego is now supplying the IHRA with their nitro needs and they have plenty.

This is a company that was once an approved supplier for VP, but since they wouldnt sell to VP for reasons neither party will comment on the record for, Wego lost that status.

The reason you haven't heard much is there isn't much going on.

 

[Butch]

What, do your printing presses run on nitro now????

Not sure but I was told back in the 70's that Nitro was used in printing.
Anyone know?

 

[onfire]

Not sure but I was told back in the 70's that Nitro was used in printing.
Anyone know?

I believe it was used as part of the cleaning process on the presses.

Late..........Mitch

 

[Nitrohelper]

Not sure but I was told back in the 70's that Nitro was used in printing. Anyone know?

We purchased some "bootleg" barrels from a distributor in the '60s.They sold chemicals to the printing industry, it was called 70/30, and tested 67%
In the '70s we could get some bootleg drums from a racer in Chicago that had a industrial connection.
After the "famous" tank car blew-up ,Nitro could only be transported in 55 gal.drums. After that all the Nitro for racing was sold by Commercial Solvents (the only producer) to a fellow named Joe Tracino.
He carried the liability insurance , and was the only one that could legally distribute it for racing.

 

[onfire]

"After that all the Nitro for racing was sold by Commercial Solvents (the only producer) to a fellow named Joe Tracino."

Back in the early '70s, we were running a junior fuel car in the Terre Haute, IN area and had a Commercial Solvents facility in town. The co-owner of the car knew someone in the factory and every whipstitch, we would go down there and pick up 5 or 6 five gallon metal cans of the stuff for 0$. Needless to say, our race fuel expenses were VERY low.

Late................Mitch

 

[Toejam]

Not sure but I was told back in the 70's that Nitro was used in printing.
Anyone know?

My families been in the printing business since 1960, and if Nitro was ever used it was before my time!

 

[Greggo]

My families been in the printing business since 1960, and if Nitro was ever used it was before my time!

And... you'd prolly spend more time at work

 

[Toejam]

And... you'd prolly spend more time at work

Or experimenting...

 

[Raconteur]

The IHRA should have nitro now at 1400 per barrell coming up for Rockingham.

Bobby, I believe that stock of nitro is specifically for IHRA competitors. The going price today, outside of IHRA, is much closer to $1,900 and there is plenty in stock and more coming from China.

 

[None]

We purchased some "bootleg" barrels from a distributor in the '60s.They sold chemicals to the printing industry, it was called 70/30, and tested 67%
In the '70s we could get some bootleg drums from a racer in Chicago that had a industrial connection.
After the "famous" tank car blew-up ,Nitro could only be transported in 55 gal.drums. After that all the Nitro for racing was sold by Commercial Solvents (the only producer) to a fellow named Joe Tracino.
He carried the liability insurance , and was the only one that could legally distribute it for racing.

I seem to recall, and it's getting harder to do every year, that Nitro was also part of the dry cleaning industry. We used to buy ours from Capital Speed Shop on Broadway in Sacramento in the 60's for our A Fuel car.. It was available in both 50% and 98% and the 2% was a shipping stabilizer. We'd just take our 5 gallon cans and load up. Price was .50 and $1.00 per gallon. It was later banned from the dry cleaning industry because of too many explosions and fires caused by chemical reactions with other cleaners.

 

[Nick Name]

I believe it is also used in Strawberry farming.

Jay

 

[Larry]

Dry Cleaning =Perchloroethylene
Printing press cleaning = Mineral Spirits [ same family as Methanol Alcohol ] .

 

[Muddy]

At one time it was used as a solvent some where in the injection moulding process. A few times in the 60s we purchased some from a local company who manufactured plastic cups, glasses etc. I think with that tiny bit of information I've exausted my knowledge.